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It’s summer and you want your iced coffee, but you don’t want your caffeine diluted by the melting ice. Luckily, there’s a solution: cold brew coffee you can make right at home. Iced coffee is hot brewed coffee poured over a glass of ice, which quickly melts and adds more water to your coffee. Cold brew coffee is made by steeping coffee grounds in a jar of cold water overnight so no ice is needed to make it cold. It’s super easy and inexpensive to make, you just have to have a bit of patience as well as coarsely-ground coffee, a large jar, a sieve, and a pour over coffee dripper.

Plus, depending upon your coffee’s blend or roast, cold-brewing should make your coffee less bitter and acidic, giving you a better cup of joe! This is because the heat of the water during hot brewing gives the coffee a bitter taste. So as a bonus, you might not need to add as much cream or sugar to your cold brew.

1. All you need to do is add your 1 ¼ cups of coarsely-ground coffee to your 10 cups of water in a large jar, stir with a spoon, then seal the lid and refrigerate for 18-24 hours. After your coffee has steeped, simply pour the water through a sieve into a clean jar or bowl to remove the grounds. It won’t remove all of the grounds though, so when you’re ready to pour your cup of coffee, simply filter it a second time using a pour over coffee dripper.

2. Remember to taste the coffee before adding your cream and sugar since you might not need to add as much as you do for a hot brew coffee.

3. You can store your cold brew coffee in a sealed jar in the refrigerator for up to 2-3 weeks.